Former YMCA worker traded child porn, police say

A 32-year-old man who worked at a YMCA in the Oak Forest area was arrested for collecting and trading child pornography on his home computer, Click 2 Houston reported.

Christopher Hilton had quit his job at the front desk of the YMCA a few weeks before police tracked him down using his computer’s IP address, detectives told the station. Hilton has been charged with promotion of child porn.

According to the story:

Investigators have accused Hilton of collecting and trading hundreds of sexually explicit images of young children. Detectives said he downloaded and shared images through his computer at his northwest Houston home.

“You can’t really judge a book by its cover. He looks normal,” said one of Hilton’s neighbors. “He doesn’t look like he would do anything to a child.”

YMCA officials said they do background checks and Hilton’s record came back clean.

Before he worked at the YMCA, Hilton was a gym teacher at a private school.